AP World History - Must Know Dates Flashcards

6587040201	The American Revolution begins	1775	0
6587044677	Discovery of the "New World"	1492	1
6587047164	End of Zheng He's voyages	1433	2
6587049321	Fall of the Byzantine Empire	1453	3
6587052950	Fall of the Western Roman Empire	476	4
6587054896	Split of the Christian Church	1054	5
6587065272	Rise of Islam	610	6
6587066732	Start of World War I	1914	7
6587087027	Beginning of agriculture	c. 8000 BCE	8
6587091685	invention of wheel, plough (Mesopotamia), and sail (Egypt)	c. 3500 BCE	9
6587094343	invention of writing in Mesopotamia	c. 3200 BCE	10
6587099057	Qin unified China	221 BCE	11
6587100920	Fall of the Mauryan dynasty	184 BCE	12
6587102564	Beginnings of Christianity	32 CE	13
6587104984	end of Pax Romana	180 CE	14
6587106519	end of Han Dynasty	220 CE	15
6587108890	Rise of the Gupta in India	320 CE	16
6587112545	Printing invented in China	730	17
6587112546	Battle of Tours	732	18
6587116066	decline of classical Maya	c. 900	19
6587119267	Norman conquest of England	1066	20
6587123057	Seljuk defeat of Byzantines (Battle of Manzikert)	1071	21
6587124482	First Crusades	1095	22
6587128153	Genghis Khan begins his conquest of Asia	1206	23
6587130117	Magna Carta signed	1215	24
6587135664	Rise of the Inca	1438	25
6587138824	Ottomans capture Constantinople	1453	26
6587140737	Aztec Empire at its height	1486	27
6587142830	Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope	1488	28
6587145878	first enslaved Africans transported to the Caribbean	1502	29
6587149747	Martin Luther/95 theses - beginning of Protestant Reformation	1517	30
6587159009	Thirty Years' War	1618 - 1648	31
6587162349	End of the Ming dynasty - rise of the Qing	1644	32
6587165649	Establishment of Cape Town Colony (South Africa)	1652	33
6587168556	Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights	1689	34
6587172559	French and Indian War aka Seven Years War	1756 - 1763	35
6587176534	French Revolution	1789	36
6587180341	Jenner's smallpox vaccination	1796	37
6587181973	Haitian Revolution	1804	38
6587184808	British abolition of the slave trade	1807	39
6587189224	Latin American independence movements (first Mexican revolution)	1810 - 1825	40
6587193597	Sepoy Mutiny in India	1857	41
6587196702	end of serfdom in Russia	1861	42
6587198817	Emancipation Proclamation issued in the US	1863	43
6587198818	German unification	1871	44
6587200104	Berlin Conference	1885	45
6587206338	New Zealand is the first to grant women suffrage	1893	46
6587209106	Battle of Adwa - Ethiopians fend of Italians	1896	47
6587211035	Spanish-American War	1898	48
6587212795	Boer War (South Africa)	1899	49
6587214582	Russo-Japanese war and Einstein's theory of relativity published	1905	50
6587219889	Mexican Revolution/Chinese Revolution	1910	51
6587224480	Treat of Versailles	1919	52
6587224481	Russian Revolution	1917	53
6587226749	Great Depression	1929	54
6587231131	Japanese invasion of Manchuria	1931	55
6587232526	Italian invasion of Ethiopia	1935	56
6587234070	Pearl Harbor	1941	57
6587237688	end of World War II	1945	58
6587241708	freedom and partition of India	1947	59
6587243963	establishment of the state of Israel	1948	60
6587243996	Chinese Communist Revolution	1949	61
6587245510	Korean War	1950 - 1953	62
6587249828	Ghana is first African nation to gain independence	1957	63
6587252548	Cuban Revolution	1959	64
6587254268	Chinese Cultural Revolution	1967	65
6587254269	Iranian Revolution	1979	66
6587258082	Tiananmen Square/fall of Berlin War	1989	67
6587260932	Namibia is the last country gain independence in Africa	1990	68
6587262929	Fall of USSR/1st Gulf Wat	1991	69